Spool-holder for ribbons and the like.



J. RUBSING, JR.

SPOOL HOLDER FOR RIBBONS AND THE LIKE. APPLICATION rrmxn sum. 11. 1903.

Patented Aug. 3, 1909.

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SPOOL-HOLDER FOR RIBBONS AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 3, 1909.

Application filed September 11, 1908. Serial No. 452,536.

To all whom it may concern:

l lo it liilUWll that l, Jasperltursino, J12, a. citizen of the llnited tlta-ues of *rica, rc ling at the city of St. Louis, in the cit/ate lsouri, have invented certain new and useful Improve!cents in Spool I-Iolders for Ribbon and the Like, of which the following is a full, clear, an l exact description, refer ence being had to th accoinpanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to a spool holder for use upon the counters of stores in measuring material wrapped upon spools and whereby a series of spools may be collectively assembled upon a. counter and the material thereon drawn and measured from all of the spools so assembled at the same time, thereby effecting a saving of the salesinans time in measuring the material, when a sale is made to a customer.

Figure I a perspective view of a store counter with my spool holder mounted thereon and a series of ribbon spools shown applied to the holder, and the ribbons from all of the spools being illiiistrated as it appears when a measurement is being made by a single measurement scale common to all of the ribbons. Fig. II is a top or plan view of the spool holder with one of its posts shown in elevated position and others of the posts shown in lowered or folded position. Fig. III is in part a longitudinal vertical section and in part an elevation of the spool holder with the posts in the positions illustrated in Fig. II. Fig. IV is a perspective view of one of the spool receiving posts.

In the accompanying drawings: A designates a store counter having thereon a measurement scale as indicated at B.

1 designates the frame of my spool holder which is suitably secured in the top of the counter A adjacent to one end of the single measurement scale B. This frame is preferably set into the top of the counter, so that its upper face is flush with the plane of the counter. In the frame 1 is a series of longitudinalpockets 2 separated by transverse partitions 3 and wedge shaped web plates 3 through which are passed screws 3 for detachably securing the frame 1 to the counter A and in the outer wall of the frame at the location of each pocket is a finger notch 4L adapted to receive a persons lingers, in order that the fingers may be placed in engagement with the spool receiving posts in the pockets to elevate them.

5 designates the spool receiving posts which a re provided with laterally extending cccentrically arranged pivot studs 6 located adjacent to the inner ends tliiereof and which are loosely seated in inverted open pivot slots 1 formed in the side walls of the frame 1,. Each of these spool receiving posts occupies its individual pocket 2 and is adapted, when not in use, to lie in a horizontal. position in its pocket, as seen in I II and III, so that it is out of the way and does not interfere with the use of the counter when the spool holder is not in use. Each post 5 is provided atits lower or inner end with an angular notch 7 and at its front face, which is lowermost when the post is folded, with an angular notch 8. These angular notches 7 and 8 are adapted to receive angular detents 9 formed on leaf springs 9 located beneath the frame of the spool holder in wedge shaped recesses (a and extending into the pockets 2 of said frame, so that they will engage in either of the angular notches 7 or 8 according to whether the posts are in elevated positions or in lowered or folded positions.

lVhen my spool holder is to be used, as many of the spool receiving posts as are to be used to receive spools, (such as shown at X, Fig. I) are elevated into upright positions, and sustained in such positions, by reason of the angular detents being seated in the angular end notches 7 of the posts. At this time, the rear faces of the posts rest against the transverse partitions 3 of the spool holder frame, so that said partitions will serve to restrain the posts from movement toward the single measurement scale during the period of withdrawing the material upon all the spools therefrom to measure it upon the counter A. After mounting the spools upon the posts, the salesman withdraws from the spools as much of the material thereon as he may desire to measure for sale, making the measurements from all of the spools collectively and after so doing, the material sold may be severed from that remaining upon the spools at the desired point. The spools may then be removed from the holder and the spool receiving posts be lowered into their folded positions to be retained in such positions by the entrance of the angular detents into the angular notches 8 of the posts, in which folded positions they remain until they are to be again elevated to receive spools from which the frame, ands spoolreceiving post haying eccentrically arranged pivot studs at lts lll measurements are to be made. The spool receiving posts may be readily engaged to elevate them by theintroduction of the salesmans fingers into the finger notches in the side Wall of the frame 1.

The inner ends of the posts 5 are segmental or curved in shape so that 'Whenthe posts 5 are elevated the pivot studs 6 move having longitudinal pocket, endpivot slots and e fingernotch in the side Walls of Her part occupying thepivot slots. r I 2. A spool holder comprising a frame having a longitudinal pocket, a transverse partition, a wedge-shaped Web plate, and

pivot slot-s ande finger notch in'the side Walls of the frame, and a spool receiving post having eccentrically arranged pivot studs at its lnner part occupylng the plvot slots. l

3. A spool holder comprising a frame having a longitudinal pocket, and pivot slots and a finger notch in the side Walls of the frame and e s oolreceivin 0st havin .l L b plvotstuds at its nner part occnpylng the pivotslots, an angular notch at its inner end-Q and an angular notch atits inner face, end a leaf spring having an angular detent adept-z 1 ed toeni'cr eitherengnlerinotcht i In the" presence LILY R031, 1 in "WM. A. Scorn osnrnn Esme, JR; 

